Friday, February 9, 2024

WidgetGrid v5.5 - Kanban View, Rating, Image Below Text, Border, Page Indicator


New features: 

1. New Kanban View (tap item to select, and then tap header to move) 
2. New Rating Column: use different emoji 
3. New image position: below text (as item background image) 
4. Add border to the widget 
5. Create Excel project from template 
6. Show or hide page indicator 
7. New title position: top and bottom 
8. New button position: top and bottom 
9. Add reload and edit data button on small widgets 
10. Improved Layout Type Selector 
11. Style Tab: expand all or collapse all 
12. Show or hide source data view in edit view 
13. Create Excel project from WidgetGrid folder 
14. Create project by searching files in Google Drive 
15. Change padding of table, form & kanban

Check this out:

Monday, January 22, 2024

WidgetGrid v5.0 - Checkbox Field, Text to Speech Field, Flip Card View, Form View



New features:

1. Change maximum item count for source data loading 
2. New Checkbox feature on widgets: toggle button to change value of field 
3. New Text-to-Speech feature on widgets: audio button to convert text into speech 
4. New Flip Card View 
5. New Form View 
6. New To Do List Template (checkbox) 
7. New Vocabulary List Template (text-to-speech) 
8. New Flash Card Template (flip card view) 
9. New Contact List Template (form view) 
10. Support simple markdown text for text and detail field 
11. Tap Upload button to upload shared project when it is changed 
12. Show text and detail column name

Check this out:

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Learn New Words through Games on Widgets

MingKi Vocabulary Games is a new way to play vocabulary games on widgets. By leveraging interactive features of widgets, you can now learn new words through games on the widgets without opening the app.



Learning Words
Currently, there are about 2900 commonly used English words. You should learn new words before playing games because those games are related to the words you just learnt.

Configuration
You can change the number of words, number of levels and translation language for each lesson. It is useful to control your progress.

Game Types
There are many game types: find word by meaning or translation, find meaning by word, spell word by voice, true or false questions, matching, etc. They are randomly picked up for each level.

Score
After finishing each lesson, the score will be shown. You can view the complete score for all lessons in the main app.

Review
You can review the last lesson to study words and play games again in order to improve your understanding.

Reporting
If you are an educator, you can ask your students to export scores as CSV files for reporting purposes.

Check this out: 

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Learning Math through Games on Home Screen Widgets

We are thrilled to announce that our new learning app MingKi Number Games is launched. 


MingKi Number Games is a new way to play mathematical games on home screen widgets. By leveraging interactive features of widgets, you can now learn mathematics through games on the widgets without opening the app. 

Topics
Currently, there are 6 topics: Number Sense, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Mixed Operations. 

Game Configuration 
You can choose from different topics, number of levels and difficulty to play. 

Game Types 
There are many game types: selection, comparison, matching, connection, ordering, calculation. Each topic contains different game types. 

Score 
After finishing each level, the score will be displayed immediately. When you complete all levels, you can view the overall score for all levels in the main app. 

Unlimited Games 
Each game is generated based on random numbers. Combination is unlimited. If the game is restarted, a new combination is generated. 

Reporting 
If you are an educator, you can ask your students to export scores as CSV files for reporting purposes.

Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Next Generation of ebooks on Home Screen Widgets by MingKi Author Widgets

We are thrilled to announce that we are launching next generation of ebooks on home screen widgets. 

MingKi Author is a new way to create and share your tiny books on home screen widgets. By leveraging interactive features of widgets, you can now browse your books on the widget without opening the app.



Book Creation

You can create square and landscape books. Square book can also be viewed on an extra large widget as two pages. You can create pages using different layouts. 


Rich Content

You can add text, photos, audios, recordings, and drawings to your books. You can set the background image and background color of pages.


Upload & Share

Once you complete your book creation, you can upload your book and share the code with your audience. 


Join Books

You can invite others to join your book by sending code or QR Code. Others just simply input the code to join.


Version Update

When you update a new version of your book, your audience can get the update by reloading the book. Reload frequency can be easily changed.


Terms of Use (EULA)

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/



Saturday, June 17, 2023

WidgetGrid v3.0 - New Layout Type, Conditional Formats, Show Weather and more

New features:

1. New layout types: Gauge View, Calendar Month View, Photo View, QR Code View

2. Add Conditional Format Rules to change text color if the conditions are matched

3. Show reload timestamp

4. Show weather

5. Change reload and edit data button color

6. New display rule for card and photo view: fixed, random, or row index


Check this out:


Wednesday, May 10, 2023

WidgetGrid v2.8 - Share Project for Collaboration

We are excited to announce that WidgetGrid v2.8 supports sharing project for collaboration. 

Advantages Of Sharing Project

  1. Project owner can invite others as collaborators to edit project together.
  2. Project owner can distribute their projects to others so that they can add widgets to their home screen.
  3. When backend data is updated, all collaborators' devices get the latest content when widgets reload at the specified interval.

How To Share Project


Project owner shares project 
  1. Tap into project 
  2. Tap more icon and then select "Share Project" 
  3. Go to data URL and then add permission to collaborator 
  4. Tap Next button to copy project code 

Collaborator joins project 
  1. Tap menu icon and then select "Shared" 
  2. Tap + icon and then select "Join Project" 
  3. Input project code 
  4. Tap Join button

Here is video demo:


Download WidgetGrid on App Store: